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An Elgin man has been charged in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old who he believed was burglarizing his vehicle, according to police. Donald Rattanavong, 57, of the 800 block of Arthur Drive, allegedly fired the fatal shot that hit 18-year-old Guillermo Pineda about 10:50 p.m. Monday in front of Rattanavong’s home, police said. Pineda, of the 1100 block of Iroquois Drive in Elgin, was taken to Sherman Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head and died shortly after.

Dajuan Jenkins has spent two of the three weeks since he was born at the old Sherman Hospital in Elgin, but on Tuesday he trekked with about 85 other patients to the medical center's sprawling new digs roughly 5 miles down the road. Part of a caravan of ambulances with the precision of a military operation, the infant arrived in a baby seat covered by a lime-green blanket. His mom looked on as a group of hospital officials and nurses uncovered him for a peek. "He slept the whole way," said a beaming Rick Muenster, the registered nurse who escorted Dajuan and his mother, Chassity Lemon, 27, of Elgin.

A caravan of ambulances will begin moving patients at 7 a.m. Tuesday from the old Sherman Hospital on Center Street in Elgin to the state-of-the-art medical center on Randall Road. Officials say their new, 640,000-square-foot hospital was built for $325 million, designed to embrace the "natural healing process" and to have a minimal environmental impact. The parade of ambulances will take off from the original Sherman Hospital, built in 1917, enter Interstate Highway 90 at Route 25 and exit at Randall Road.

Dr. Robert W. Ollayos, 92, a longtime Elgin pediatrician whose research during the 1940s contributed to the development of lifesaving equipment for babies born with Rh-blood incompatibility factor, died Monday, Feb. 23, in a nursing facility near St. Louis, of complications related to Alzheimer's disease. For two decades, the father of six and veteran of World War II served as the medical director for children with profound medical disabilities at Little Angels Nursing Home in Elgin.

Plans by Sherman Hospital to add a medical office building to its new campus in Elgin were approved Tuesday by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, officials said. Sherman expects to begin construction by Sept. 1 on the 104,000-square-foot building, hospital spokeswoman Chris Priester said. The project is expected to cost about $20 million. The building is set to be done in fall 2009, a few months before Sherman is scheduled to open its new hospital at Randall and Big Timber Roads, Priester said.

From the dog days of summer to frigid winter nights, the key to keeping a new Elgin hospital at a cozy temperature lies in an 18-foot-deep lake. Workers this summer are submerging about 150 miles of plastic pipe so Sherman Hospital can use water from the bottom of the 15-acre geothermal lake to heat and cool its new facility. "If the lake was dry, it would look like a bunch of coils and piping connected together by a bunch of spaghetti," said Warren Lloyd, a vice president for KJWW Engineering Consultants.

Irving Phillip Durchslag, of Elgin, formerly of Chicago, passed away Jan. 1, 2008 at Sherman Hospital. He was born Jan. 4, 1917, in Chicago. The son of the late William and Bella Durchslag. He married Jeanette Robin in Oct. 1941 in Chicago. He married Dr. Marjorie Lerner in June 1983, who preceded him in death in 1995. Irving is survived by the mother of his children Jeanette Durchslag and their children Donald Albert (Judy) Durchslag, Debra Ann (Craig Zarley)

A Cook County judge Thursday upheld a decision by state regulators allowing Sherman Hospital to build a new facility in Elgin, despite arguments that it might drive long-standing rival Provena St. Joseph Hospital out of business. Judge Peter Flynn ruled the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board acted appropriately last year when it gave Sherman the go-ahead to build a $310 million hospital on the city's west side. St. Joseph, which sued to try to halt Sherman's expansion, called the ruling disappointing but made no decision Thursday whether it would appeal.

Ronald Winters, a retired Elgin doctor who became personally embroiled in a dispute between rival hospitals as a member of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, has resigned from the panel, officials said Friday. Winters submitted his resignation Thursday to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who had appointed Winters to the board in 2004. The board is responsible for approving major hospital projects. Winters acknowledged Friday that he had resigned but declined to comment on his reasons.